News The Perlan Project: Taking a glider to 90,000 feet.

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I've recently discovered a passion for soaring and I found this project whilst browsing soaring websites.

Steve Fossett's gliding altitude record was set as part of this project's first phase. Phase two is set to take a specially built glider to 90,000 feet using South American mountain waves and the polar vortex:


http://perlanproject.org/


The phase two glider takes a somewhat familiar appearance!
 
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